After a series of productive performances at the Bob Eubanks Open on Saturday, Jan. 13, four members of the Grand Valley State men’s and women’s track and field teams were rewarded with GLIAC weekly honors, sweeping all four categories.

In the seventh grade, a friend of Kelly Haubert’s talked her into doing cross country. Haubert, originally from Liberty Center, Ohio, said cross country only had five athletes total between middle school and high school.

The Grand Valley State women’s track and field team produced dominant performances across the board during the three-day GLIAC Outdoor Track & Field Championships to win their eighteenth consecutive conference title in front of a home crowd Wednesday, May 3, through Friday, May 5.

The Grand Valley State track and field teams were spread out across the country from Thursday, April 13 through Saturday, April 15. Different athletes competed at five meets in states as far away as California.
Being split up didn’t slow down the production. In fact, GVSU posted the largest number of qualifying marks in a weekend yet this season. Twenty-eight provisional and two automatic marks were hit in total, putting many athletes in strong positions to attend the national meet in May.

Bowling Green, Kentucky turned slightly Laker Blue Saturday, April 8.
Grand Valley State track and field sent its sprinters, hurdlers, jumpers and throwers to compete at the Western Kentucky Hilltopper Relays, where several athletes posted high marks.

Four-thousand six hundred miles of travel and competition against the best of Division I. That’s the Stanford Invitational.
Grand Valley State sent its three best distance runners into the fray to test themselves against the best and post some nationally competitive marks.
It worked.

For college cross country and track and field athletes, the end of May means nearly a three-month break from competition, but for the coaches the work never stops. Recruiting season isn’t a season at all—it’s a year-round affair.

Six Grand Valley State distance runners stretched their legs for the first time in the 2017 outdoor season.
The Lakers sent three men and three women to the Raleigh Relays in Raleigh, North Carolina to compete Friday, March 24.